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How do you all handle this? Do you use aliases, a separate "junk" account, or something else entirely? I'm curious to hear what strategies everyone has come up with.
Every new account gets a new alias from SimpleLogin via Bitwarden which then redirects to a specific ‘burner’ inbox and then can turn off the Aliases as needed.
Got access to SimpleLogin via Proton subscription, which in turn plays really nicely with Bitwarden as my password manager.. Every new account gets a new alias from SimpleLogin via Bitwarden which then redirects to a specific ‘burner’ inbox and then can turn off the Aliases as needed.
For Apple users the „Hide My Email“ feature is invaluable. A short look in my settings tells me that right now I have 171 active aliases.
This made her google account full and she kept getting warnings and received no new emails. I am not a google user so forgive my random language and misunderstandings.
I tried to delete them for her from her phone, but you can only delete 30 emails at a time in the app.
I then got her to sign in to her gmail from her browser. Again it is not easy to delete 15,000 emails when you can only delete a certain amount (100) each time.
I could only do it by using rules in the search box.
older_than:4y
This deleted all emails over 4 years old.
I then did, older_than:3y, older_than:2y, and older_than:1y
So she was left with a years worth of emails.
I searched for say: "Next", to show all the emails from "Next".
I slowly went through them and unsubscribed, then deleted all the emails acssociated with "Next".
I did this for all the companies she had signed up to.
It took a long afternoon but eventually I managed to reduce her emails down to a manageable 150.
I have set her up a Protonmail account and redirected all her gmail to protonmail. And taught her about good email hygeine.
Protonmail now has an Unsubscribe button. Transfer the mailing list emails to the unsubscribe folder and unsubscribe from all the emails in the unsubscribe box.
Unsubscribing is a nightmare, just trying to find the intentionally hidden, link at the botton when you are as old and as blind as me is a testing task.
Unsubscribe from marketing emails you don't care about. The USA, surprisingly, has a law where if they don't have an unsubscribe link at the bottom, the CEO of that company goes to jail. I presume this law only passed because politicians got annoyed by spam. Use it.
Sometimes you do want them but want them to be out of sight (e.g. emails from digi-key about new products). Then filter them.
You can use email aliases if you want to. If you have your own domain you can use any address you like and even if they're not separate mailboxes you can use the "to" address for filtering. Gmail provides unlimited free aliases: yourname+anything@gmail.com is an alias for yourname@gmail.com and so is y.ou.r.n.ame@gmail.com (for sites that are aware of the + aliases).